Is Meritocracy A Working System?

The belief in meritocracy drives people to work harder and to be diligent in the hope to achieve their goals. But to what extent is meritocracy a working system? Does the belief in it, an existing and working system, make it real or is it just an illusion that brings people to believe in justice in terms of equality. Every individual should have equal opportunities, equal means and the same starting point to make their dreams come true according to people who seek equality. If one aspect is impossible to accomplish then we already tend to question the existence of meritocracy. Meritocracy does not work in the real world model, because through inheritance and natural gifts resources and means are not distributed or cannot be distributed equally in the society.

Meritocracy is a social system in which individual’s merits are based on their abilities and skills and
There are a lot of nonmerit factors, but there is one which can be linked to almost all other nonmerit barriers, inheritance. Being an extensive subject of the issue is meritocracy a working system, it creates unequal starting points before we even can realize it. Our initial class placement has happened since birth, whether we are born into abundance or poverty is the quintessential cause where we will end up in life. As the article “The Meritocracy Myth” points out: “Where we start out in life has the greatest effect on where we end up,” (McNamee and Miller, pp.5). Along with inheritance comes a handful of advantages such as education. Nowadays in our society, even education has its price. Those, who are financially above the average, have and use the opportunity to send their children to private schools, in which the environment, the personal interaction with teachers and a more advanced teaching system have a huge impact on the child’s learning process.